PREFACE
THEY who have presumed to dogmatize on nat.ure, as
on some well investign.ted subject, either from self-conceit
or arrogance, and in the professorial style, have inflicted
the grcRtest injury on philosophy and learning. Fol.' they
have tended to stifle and interrupt inquiry exactly in pro�
portion a8 they have prevailed in bringing others to their
olJinion: and their own activity has not counterbalanced
the mischief they have occasiolled by corrupting and de�
stroying that of others. They again who have entered upon
a contrary course, and asserted that nothing whatever can
be known, whether they hnve fallen into this opinion from
their hatred of the ancient sophists, or from the hesitation
of their millds, or from an exuberance of learning, have
certainly adduced reasons for it. which are by no menns
contemptible. They hayc not, however, derived their
opinion from. true sources, and, hurried on by their zeal
and some affectation, have certainly exceeded due mo

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